Miseries Quotes

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.